Work Sample_Chloe Zhang_Architecture and Urban Design

CONTENT 01. Food-topia

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Urban Design Master Degree Graduate Work, London

02. 1934 Paper mill

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03. THE PROMENADE

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04. STEPPING UP

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05. BRIDGE ON THE HILL

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06. Residential Planning

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Other WORKS

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Renewal Design of Industrial Heritage Graduate Work, Guangzhou

Art Museum Design Core Studio Work, Guangzhou

Collective Housing Complex Design Core Studio Work, Guangzhou

New Dyeing Workshop Design Competition Project, Guizhou

Sham Tseng Village Residential Planning Core Studio Work, Guangzhou

+44 7778300498 chauyeejang@gmail.com

01.Food-topia Urban Design about Food&City London, UK Graduate Project Instructor: Roberto Bottazzi, Tasos Varoudis Eirini Tsouknida, Vasileios Papalexopoulos, Margarita Chaskopoulou Team Work, 09/2022-09/2023

Food-topia is a community-based urban design project with a theoretical background derived from the European Union's EIT Food programme, focusing on the three segments of food production, distribution and consumption. This project focuses on enhancing supply chain management systems to tackle food desert issues by seeking to bridge the accessibility gap and improve urban health and well-being for affected communities through precision agriculture. Furthermore, the project is proposed to dwell and develop throughout London according to the city's needs.

In the implementation, Food-Topia's urban design strategies can be employed to shape new urban forms capable of adapting to changes resulting in collecting, analysing, and simulating data to produce iterations that can be adapted to the city's needs. Based on the data analytics that is overlapped, data is remapped to make iterations based on each supply chain classification integrating with the city's network to raise food desert issues. Restructuring the urban fabric process influences political, social, and historical aspects. In this case, access to food supply varies in London, from needing more retail outlets leading to household insecurities.

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UNDERSTANDING FOOD AND LONDON FROM DATA

IN-SITE DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS

DATA CORRELATION

SITE DATA ANALYTICS

Looking through the food supply chain, it goes from seed to the table through three processes: production, distribution, and consumption.

we analysed the site’s typology of foodincorporated places, pedestrian volume, sunlight, visibility analysis, and social media trends on a micro scale. The datasets are overlapped to be evaluated and examined to identify areas that immensely influence the supply chain systems.

In analysing data for food distribution, we intend to focus on the factories and storages where foods are processed and stored as well as the areas with more options for transportation. Population as a social factor in the area is also studied to analyse in influencing food deserts.

KMEANS CLUSTERS

CONSUMPTION

DISTRIBUTION

PRODUCTION

GPS

SOCIAL MEDIA

PEDESTRIAN VOLUME

VISIBILITY GRAPH ANALYSIS

ANNUAL AVERAGE SUNLIGHT

PCA 0 LOW

HIGH

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS PCA 1 LOW

QGis/Rhino/Grasshopper/Python

HIGH

The data is clustered to visualize their correlation by placing the data in a threedimensional scale in the city. The elevated areas shown on the map are areas that has a high intensity of food deserts.

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ALGORITHM-DRIVEN URBAN DESIGN FUNCTION DEFINITION

NETWORK GENERATION

VIA WOOL ALGORITHM

VIA EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY

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The starting and end points of the path

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Wo o l a l g o r i t h m s to generate networks

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Random curve generation

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Optimization of some curves

The network's plan is started by analyzing the city network.

Road connectivity has helped to decide access entry points of the food port from the roads. Using the wool algorithm,

FINAL GENERATION VERSION we proceeded to generate a large number of curves and find suitable paths and optimize the network on the site.

VOLUME GENERATION

VIA PIX2PIX

INPUT

OUTPUT

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U-NET GENERATOR

The "building height" data within the site is predicted by stacking the data from the train plots. By combining the data with geographic information, the site plot is discovered to have a linear height difference within the plot, and values greater Rhino/Grasshopper/Python

than the median height are extracted from the 3D view for visualisation, a predicted machine learning data is used to determine the building height of the food port within the food system.

In order to use evolution algorithm to calculate the optimal solution for the functional distribution in the site, in this section we combine the new buildings with the existing ones to calculate the data for VGA. The formula is used to calculate our functionally optimal solution.

A cluster of each supply chain function is analysed to produce iterations with an evolutionary algorithm. Each supply chain function, production, distribution, and consumption, is individually analysed by calculating the weighted average of the visibility sunlight analysis to generate and choose suitable iterations that are most efficient in strengthening the supply chain system.

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SPREAD OUT TO CITY LEVEL Our project vision is expected to grow across cities in the digital transition in agriculture to support better policy and planning design and address imbalances in food chains and agricultural markets. This could improve accessibility and affordability to nutritious food through local markets or food cooperatives partnering with local farmers.

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Distribution

Consumption

Production

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Step 1: Generate buildings base on pervious algorithm

Step 2: Reduce Footprint

In the architectural designs of the buildings, prototypes are designed and classified into different functions, forming the food port community. The planning form of the architecture starts as a hexagon, and the edges are deformed, adapting Rhino/Grasshopper/Unreal Engine/Illustrator/Photoshop

Step 3: Building deformation in response to the network

its shape from the state of the network. The structure of architecture intends to be a naturally growing form. The eccentric and polycentric designs evolve according to different functions, creating a fluid internal and external space.

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02. 1934 Paper Mill Renewal Design of Industrial Heritage Guangzhou, China Graduate Project Instructor: Hanfei Qu Individual Work, 03/2021-05/2021

Under Guangzhou's policy of "retreating two into three"[1], factories along the Pearl River, including paper mills, are to be relocated to the suburbs. The industrial sites fracture history while showing the glorious industrial history and civilization on the ground, and it is their existence that continues the cultural lineage of industrial abandoned sites. At the same time, the reproduced relics are easy to stimulate individuals' identification and imagination of the places they once were. How to transform the testimony of the former glory of the old industrial heritage into the guide of the new life of the contemporary city, and how to connect the two different time vectors of the fractured history of the past and the future of the everchanging creative industry are the issues to be considered in this design.

In this design, reposition the paper mill with rich history with the focus on art, culture and economy to create a cultural and commercial complex. It is hoped that this approach will activate the Guangzhou Paper Mill area and link up the industrial heritage along the Pearl River.

Rhino/Vray/Photoshop

[1] Secondary industries will be withdrawn from the urban area and tertiary industries such as commerce and services will be developed.“Retreating the second” means relocating, renovating or closing down industrial enterprises within and near the inner ring road that are heavily polluting, consume a lot of energy and have poor efficiency.

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SITE AXONOMETRIC 1

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SITE PLAN

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1.PLAZA 2.OFFICES 3.RETAILS 4.MARKET 5.RESTAURANTS 6.PAPER MILL MUSEUM 7.AIR CORRIDOR 8.ART CENTER 9.WATERFRONT PARK

Layer 1: Points, lines and surfaces are used to set up the landscape to suit the different qualities of the site, which is long and narrow in the north and open in the south.

Rhino/Illustrator/Photoshop

Layer 2: The open roof structure is used to limit the temporary event space, where bazaars, pop-up events, etc. can be held.

Layer 3: Use the corridor to connect the north and south parcels to alleviate the problem of being divided by urban roads, and at the same time, respond to the surrounding environment as a landscape corridor. Adding to the interest of the tour, people can appreciate the industrial buildings from different heights.

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ACTIVITY

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PARK

PARKING

paper Mill Museum OFFICES

retails

market

FOOD centre

Cultural centre

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03. THE PROMENADE Art Museum Design Guangzhou, China Core Studio Project Instructor: Hanfei Qu Individual Work, 09/2018-10/2018 The site is located on the central axis of the city, where the large buildings and empty hard squares make the public buildings less civic friendly. What should it look like for an urban art museum?

In this design, I have tried to abandon the traditional modern urban construction model of large plazas with large signage and replace the large plaza with a landscaped park, with undulating landscapes and dense trees that do not allow one to fully perceive the shape of the building within the site.As one promenades through the park, one inadvertently walks through the shade of the trees into the grey space of the building, creating a continuous experience of inner and outer space, meeting the basic functional needs of the building while linking nature with the material world of human civilisation.The idea is to find a balance between nature, architecture and the city, creating a space where people can be in the CBD but still feel like they are in the middle of a forest.

Physical Model

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PROMENADE ARCHITECTURE TYPOLOGY STUDY

Roof

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Fourth Floor

1.Roof Garden 2.Permanent Exhibition 3.Sculpture Exhibition

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Third Floor

SITE STRATEGY

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CHIGANG TOWER

SITE

GUANGZHOU TOWER

URBAN AXIS

1.Temporary Exhibition 2.Leisure Courtyard 3.Permanent Exhibition 4.Permanent Exhibition 5.Temporary Exhibition 6.Temporary Exhibition 7.Storage

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Hill Floor

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1.Office 2.Art Salon 3.Park Cafeteria 4.Open Workshop 5.Reference Room 6.Sculpture Hill

Park Floor

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1.Lounge 2.Hall Entrance 3.Restaurant 4.Lobby 5.Office 6.Lecture Hall

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RESPOND TO THE HISTORIC TOWER

The site and the historic pagoda are located at opposite ends of the city's central axis, and the large volume of the public building separates the central plaza from its surroundings. By elevating the ground floor of the museum, it becomes an extension of the urban space. The first floor is made into a cladding building, creating a landscape that echoes the pagoda Park. At the same time, the de-boundary design weakens the majesty of the public building and allows art to become a part of the citizens' daily life.

Rhino/Illustrator/Photoshop

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Wa n d e r in g in Museum Pa rk When we walk in the shadow of the ground floor overhead, we are first drawn by the sight of the light court and move towards the important narrative starting space of the building.

The weak directionality at the bottom of the building makes the human body lose the sense of direction, but the upward steps bring new hope.

When they walk to the second floor space, they begin the narrative experience of the exhibition.

Using continuous ramp to guide people to move forward, to eliminate the limitation between layers, so as to bring a kind of "fuzzy" walking experience.

SECTION A-A

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The museum's main exhibition space was arranged around a spiralling ramp. People B

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1. LOW PLANTS 2. MEDIUM GROWTH 3. DRAINAGE LAYER 4. PROTECTION LAYER 5. ROOT BARRIER 6. WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 7. CONCRETE ON METAL DECK

8. ALUMINUM CURB 9. VEGETATION-FREE STRIP RAVEL, PAVERS 10. DRAINAGE DITCH 11. STEEL ANGLE 12. STEEL BEAM 13. ALUMINIUM FRAME

will be guided forward unobtrusively, gaining a different visual focus at any location.

Brightness and darkness imply the transformation of different functional spaces.

View A

View B

Rhino/Enscape/Photoshop/AutoCad/Illustrator

DETAILS CONSTRUCTION

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04. Stepping up

Original Apartment Prototype

Bring Function to " Boundary "

Collective Housing Complex Design Guangzhou, China Academic Project Instructor: Yunjiang Wu Individual Work, 04/2019-06/2019

Many of today's university graduates face the problem of renting accommodation, and with the diversity of working styles, they have very different needs for living and working space.

The site is located at the junction of the university campus and the city. The design is intended to provide students, graduates and teachers with a variety of options for living and working during the transition period, which caters for new forms of cohabitation[1].

In the design I have organised the shared work and living spaces together, weakening the boundaries between the two is dangerous, which possibly makes it difficult to separate work and life for people. However, the combination of the two can greatly increase productivity and save time and resources. To make use of the sharing of built space to minimise the burden of domestic labour, including work activities based on cooperation and assistance, such as joint cleaning, cooking, etc. To resist the fragmentation of domestic space and the tendency to divide it into 'family homes'.

[1] PierVittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara.“Production/Reproduction: Housing beyond the Family”, No. 41 / Family Planning, Harvard Design Magazine.

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CONCEPT

SELECTED FLOOR PLAN FROM THREE CLUSTERS The floor plan shows a variation of public spaces on different levels. And the function of the "yellow area" change with it. Some of the space of individual units such as workspace,

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Original Apartment Prototype

kitchen, leisure space, etc. Which are extracted into shared spaces that can minimise the labour and financial burden on families, while gaining more space for activities.

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Expand Traffic Space

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Bring Function to " Boundary "

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Place "Boundary"

CITY VIEW

Baiyun Mountain

Teaching building

8th FLOOR PLAN (Cluster 1)

14th FLOOR PLAN (Cluster 2)

22nd FLOOR PLAN (Cluster 3)

City skyline

GRADUATION SEASON JOB FAIR

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Dwelling district

-3.500

Administrative building

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Park

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Sea of flower

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1.500

Sport ground

Lake

CAMPUS VIEW

WuShan Road

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BUSINESS SEASON CONFERENCE

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WUSHAN ROAD

THE TRANSFORMATION OF T WO SIDES

"OBVERSE"

The shared living space is oriented towards the lively city, with the blocks projecting outwards in a positive response to the city. The massing changes in response to the change in view of the landscape.

Rhino/AutoCad/Photoshop/Illustrator

"REVERSE"

The shared office area is located on the quieter side of the building, with the block retracted inwards to reduce urban distractions.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1.PLAZA 2.RESTAURANT 3.ART GALLERY 4.BOOKSHOP 5.SUPERMARKET 6.FOOD COURT 7.CAFE 8.ENTRANCE HALL 9.FLEXIBLE SPACE(FOR BUSINESS)

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The yellow pedestrian walkway becomes an extension of the urban interface. The privacy of the public space changes from the lower to the higher floors. The ground floor the more open commercial space and the upper floors are more private space such as, tea rooms and reading spaces. A sense of the street is created from ground level all the way up to the tower.

Rhino/Photoshop/AutoCad

DETAILS CONSTRUCTION

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05.BRIDGE ON THE HILL Dyeing Workshop Design Guizhou, China Competition Project Instructor: Juliet Ju Individual Work, 07/2020 The base is located in a natural Miao village in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province - Pai Pai Village, which is one of the birthplaces of the art of batik in China. In the past, women were trained in the art of batik, but nowadays they leave their elderly and children behind to work for a higher income, and the art of batik is gradually being lost.

In my design, using the dyeing workshop as a starting point, we want to give more space for young and old to do activities and feel nature in this place. It is hoped that this place will awaken people's awareness of nature, build a collective memory of the batik craft and the local people, and shape the cultural identity of the place.

The building consists mainly of an activity space for the old and young, and a batik display and experience area. The interaction between the old and the young, the batik and the people, the space and the natural landscape is accommodated under the flowing roof. The space for the old and the young is shaped in a "linear" way, linking the "surfaces" with specific functions, such as the water terraces, through a "linear" flowing space. The batik space acts as a bridge between the whole building, opening up the space and providing more opportunities for communication and dialogue between different groups of people. People can watch the whole process of batik immersively through the batik flow and build up a common emotional memory.

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Airing

DAILY ACTIVITIES

DYEING PROCESS

Indoor Activities

POLISH FABRIS

DYEING

Picking indigo

Making dyes

Put the painted AIRING wax pieces in the After soaking the indigo dyeing vat. dye, you need to Generally, each a drying rack to DEWAING piece needs to be use dry the dyed cloth.

Fabrics were boiled soaked for five or six days. by boiling water and rinsed in cold water.

Weaving Polish fabrics

Drawing wax

Dewaxing

Dyeing

Traditionally, a grinding stone is used to grind cloth by manpower.

DRAWING PATTERNS

MAKING DYES Lonicera edulis is extracted and processed from bluegrass plants.

WEAVING The cloth used in local batik is selfwoven linen and cotton.

Place the white cloth on the wooden board, put the beeswax in the metal pot, heat it to melt the wax, and then use a copper knife to dip the wax to paint.

PICKING INDIGO Polygonum is suitable for temperate or subtropical regions. The climate in Guizhou is very suitable for the growth of Polygonum.

Indoor Activities Cooking

Music Dance

Farming

Handcarft Chatting

Playing chess Reading

ISOLATION The locals have abundant daily activities and traditional handicraft techniques, but being scattered around the village is not conducive to people gathering and communication, so a community center is needed to organize them.

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The sections are cut along the direction of contour change, which represents the building changed with the terrain.The building tries to blend in with the natural landscape.

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Open verandah with continuous roof like a local shelter bridge. Under the continuous roof, scenes of the daily activities of the inhabitants are played out.

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AXONOMETRIC DRAWING Rhino/Photoshop/Illustrator

1.Entrance hall 2.Chess room 3.Social space 4.Reading pavilion 5.Dinning hall 6.Shared kitchen 7.Gym 8.Theater 9.Children playground 10.Office A.Picking indigo B.Making dyes C.Processing cloth D.Drawing pattern E.Airing F.Dyeing G.Dewaxing 17

V I E W O F T H E F I R S T C O U R T YA R D

Rhino/Vray/Photoshop

V I E W O F T H E S E C O N D C O U R T YA R D

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06. RESIDENTIAL PLANNING High Density Housing Research & Design Guangzhou, China Course Project Instructor: Xiaojin Chen Group Work, 09/2019-12/2019 (research 30%, design 60%, drawing 50%, rendering 70%)

The base of this residential planning and design project is located in Sham Tseng Village, Cheung Chau Island, Whampoa District. The design utilises a new curvilinear walkway to link the 600 metre north-south base of Sham Tseng Village and On Lai Town into a coherent whole, and to make organic connections between three heritage assets and the landscaped greenway.

The carriageway starts from Sham Tseng Wharf and crosses the site to the west, finally connecting with Sham Tseng Village, which ensures the connection between the site and the neighbouring sites. This ensures the accessibility of the site to the neighbouring areas. The new commercial street is located on the south side of the carriageway, which is the core of the neighbourhood, making it easy to pass through for shopping and at the same time less intrusive to the residences.

The Community Activity Centre is set up on an elevated floor near the Lotus Pond, which has the advantages of a large activity space, good landscape and less susceptibility to the weather. The overhead running track also adds interest to residents' lives.

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Art Apartments Floor Plans

The Art Residence, as the core project of this residential plan, adopts the strategy of vertical space to differentiate between public and private space in the residential units. Three residential units cater for different family types.

Art Apartments Elevation

MASTERPLAN SketchUp/AutoCad/Lumion/Photoshop

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

COMPETITION:QINGPING VILLAGE RENEWAL

GUANGGANG RAILWAY RENEWAL PLANNING

Participate in Preliminary Research/Design Guidelines/Analytic Diagram Professional Work at Atelier cnS, Shenzhen,China

Participate in Feasibility Study/Planning/Conceptual Design/Layout/Seminars Professional Work at Architectural History & Research Institute of SCUT, Guangzhou, China

06/2020-07/2020

10/2021-01/2022 K4+700

鱼塘乡村景观段

Fishpond Rural Landscape Area

K4+500 K4

葵蓬花街 Kuipeng Flower Street

K3+700

茶滘桃湾

K3

Cha Kau Tao Wan

K2+600

花地河绿道公园段 Greenfield Park segment of the Huadi River

芳村健身运动段

K2+200

K1+800

Physical fitness segment

Railway K1+400

Current interface Planning interface

东漖工业站重点段

Dongjiao industrial station priority segment

K0+900

Extended range K0+500

轨道公园段

城市设计导则

Railway Park segment

街道空间 Urban Design Guidelines 图例

名称

布局

功能与形式要求 • •

景观 大道

中心路 •

Basic range

K0

Coordination range Entrances Network

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以交通功能为主，同 时也是片区主要的景 观大道； 街道两侧宜设置海绵 景观带，将清平河、 桥头村内水体等与新 桥河串联； 所选植物宜以亚热带 本地植物为主，并注 意绿化的多样性和层 次感；

野趣 街道

地块内 主要街 道及滨 水街道

• 结合滨水空间和带状绿 地设置的慢行道； • 以人行功能为主，宜布 置软质海绵设施、水景、 小型交流或展示空间等， 营造丰富的空间感受； • 无绿地一侧宜为骑楼建 筑，建议保持建筑的连 续性，业态以文化展示、 咖啡厅等公共交流性性 功能为主。在不影响交 通疏散的情况下允许设 置局部的外摆区

文化 商业 街

长街、 横街

• 仅限人行，古墟中心的 商业街； • 两侧宜为骑楼建筑，建 议保持建筑的连续性， 业态以商业位置，原则 上不建议设置外摆区域

一般 内部 街巷

串联建 筑组团 和公共 空间的 一般街 巷

• 以慢行功能为主，谨慎 植入停留空间和城市家 具，保证通行能力 • 鼓励通过立面改造、灰 空间植入、立体绿化等 手法活化街巷空间

景观大道 野趣街道 内街 小巷 建议性中小运量线路及站点 主要交通节点 车行主入口 人行主入口

Urban regeneration bidding project in Shenzhen, activating local cultural industries through design and preserving historical buildings and traditional features in the original village. Won second place in the bidding.

SketchUp/AutoCad/Enscape/Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign

The planning and design of the Guanggang Railway is part of a project to protect and utilise Guangzhou’s industrial heritage. Through the overall planning and business planning of the abandoned railway, we hope to activate its utilisation value and improve the surrounding situation. This project provides a reference value for the revitalisation and utilisation of Guangzhou’s industrial heritage.

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OTHER WORK Shown here are some of my sketch works, past building practices including installations, interior design, ecological toilets, in addition to modelling and ceramic works.

Practices

Handworks

Sketch

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